Well, the boys from College Station managed to throw the BCS for a loop and the HLS Top 25 is no different. We have a new number one and there’s quite a bit of movement around the standings.

So let’s pretend that I’m not posting this at the end of the week and get straight to the rankings!

HLS Top 25 – Week 11

HLS is following the lead of Brain Kelly and putting the Irish number one.

Personally, I changed my voting from previous weeks and re-examined everyone’s resume. Oregon ended up being the victim of just now hitting the hard part of their schedule, facing Stanford, Oregon State, and then the Pac-12 title game. Their only quality win is USC and once they run through their schedule, they’ll easily jump right back up in my ballot, even possibly overtaking #1 depending on how those games goes (and taking into consideration how depleted their defense is due to injury).

Kansas State clearly has more quality wins, but as we’ve posted quite a bit here at HLS, the majority of us simply don’t see how we can put Kansas State ahead of the Irish. And, hey, as much as we’ve been banging the homer drum here, we might as well go all out, right?

With that said, the rest of the staff polls are below. Biscuit again had to abstain. On that note: Dear life kicking Biscuit’s ass, please let up. We need some rants.

HLS Staff Polls